TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO Y. V. LOMONOSOV

Published:First published on January 31, 1925 inKrasnaya GazetaNo. 25.

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ComradeLomonosov

Copies:to Professor Ramzin, Transport Section, State
Planning CommissionComrade Fomin, People’s Commissariat for Railways

Pleasearrange with Gosplan, P.C.R. and the Thermal
Technical Institute about the terms of a competition for
diesel locomotives, taking account of the C.L.D. decision
of 4/I–22. It is highly desirable not to lose time for usingfunds which may happen to be available during the
fulfilment of orders for steam locomotives, to obtain diesel
locomotives which are much batter for us. Please inform me
personally without delay about the results of any agreement
you may
reach.[1]

[1]OnJanuary 28, 1922, Y. V. Lomonosov sent a telephone
message informing Lenin of a conference he had had with G. M.
Krzhizhanovsky, Prof. L. K. Ramzin and Deputy Head of the
Technical Committee of the People’s Commissariat for Railways
P. S. Yanushevsky, about the construction of diesel
locomotives. See also this volume, Document 613.